A large number of young people voted in this recent election and the majority voted for liberal politicians. They thought they were voting to protect democracy but were deceived. The only education they get is in schools where they read socialist friendly textbooks and from the media and social media that are heavily controlled by liberals. Most young people have no understanding of the issues involved because they have been fed a continual stream of liberal propaganda. They think the socialism being pushed by liberals is democracy and socialists like Joe Biden continually talk about how they are protecting democracy, while seeking to undermine it. In the early 1970’s, during the Vietnam War, many hippies were upset by the materialism of their parents and were escaping to communes where they lived a carefree life with no laws or responsibilities. The socialists flooded the college campuses with stories about how the United States had invaded Vietnam and was trying to enslave them. The kids had no idea that China had invaded Vietnam and the United States was trying to help Vietnam protect itself. The kids equated Communism (which was really socialism) with their life in the communes. As a result, the young people protested the war and eventually forced the United States to withdraw from the war allowing Vietnam to fall to the Chinese Socialists. Many of the socialists active then like Bill Clinton and John Kerry are still active in government and are now seeking to create a socialist government in the United States. The church must step up and educate the kids in the facts of the issues. That is why I have written the series on the value of life, the value of law, and the value of marriage and gender. (see promos and links to the courses on our blog under Study courses)
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President Biden is pushing a massive student loan forgiveness program to buy student votes. It is only one more of his massive spending programs which are fueling inflation due to the massive influx of money flooding the economy. It is estimated to cost almost one trillion dollars. Such a massive expenditure is unfair to all those of us who paid for our educations. It took me ten years to pay off my student loans from college and ten years to pay off my loans from graduate school, but I did it because I felt that it was worth the cost. My wife went back and finished her college. and we paid off her loans as well. That has been the normal for those who chose to go to college in the past. It is also unfair to students and their parents who saved up for their education, and those young people who went into the Armed Services to cover the cost of their college. This doesn’t benefit those who need it most because many of those that needed it did not go to college because they could not afford it and didn’t want to get saddled with massive debts. It benefits those in the middle and upper class who could afford to go to college. In addition, college isn’t for everyone. Many choose jobs that don’t require college. Paying college debts is bad policy because it will lead many to go to college that don’t need it in anticipation of the government covering the cost. In addition, many won’t take their education seriously because they won’t have to sacrifice for it. I saw that while teaching in college. The students that got welfare payments to attend college often were more interested in getting credit for the course than in learning. They complained because half of their grade was based on their attendance, so they had to show up to get a good grade. In addition, government money pushes up the cost of college. It is simple supply and demand. Schools take advantage of the government funds. If colleges charge $1000 a semester and the government offers $1000 a semester, the schools will raise their rates to $2000 to get the government money. We saw that with Obamacare. In addition, the President does not have the authority to order the use of tax dollars to pay private debts because spending bills have to be passed by Congress.
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President Biden has bypassed Congress and rewritten Title IX rules to replace the ban on discrimination based on sex with discrimination based on gender identity. It will require schools to allow children to use the restrooms, locker rooms, showers based on their perceived gender, not their sex. There is no word when the regulations will take effect. Gay rights groups have been targeting schools to force them to open restrooms to transgender children. Recently a school in Washington State decided that a boy who thought he was really a girl should be allowed to use the girl’s restrooms. Parents are understandably up in arms. It opens the doors to all kinds of danger. All a boy has to do is declare he feels he is a girl to gain access to the girl’s restroom. With advances in technology enabling people to plant cameras to spy on people, giving boys access to a girl’s restroom opens up more dangers. Recently a college that had opened its locker rooms to transgender students found a camera had been planted in the restroom and was taking pictures of the girls showering. The boys responsible had been posing as transgender and used the opportunity to plant the cameras. While the boys were expelled from school, the pictures had already been posted on the internet for all to see and the girls will have to live with the knowledge that pictures of them undressed are floating around the internet for their friends and potential friends to see. Parents can bring about change. The Stafford Co (VA) School Board decided to allow a cross-gender boy to use the girl’s bathroom, however, irate parents crowded into the School Board’s next meeting to protest and the School Board decided not to allow the boy to use the girl’s bathroom though they did not pass a resolution to prevent the school from allowing it in the future. The issue is not over.
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Teachers unions say the public schools will be seriously hurt by the loss of money and students if vouchers are given to children to take to the school of their choice, but areas using vouchers have found public schools improve, sometimes dramatically when vouchers are introduced. Our public schools have become lazy and inefficient because they have not had any real competition in the past because private schools are so expensive. When vouchers are introduced, public schools trim fat and improve teaching to avoid losing students. Currently, most parents are forced to send their kids to public schools because they must pay all or most of the tuition themselves to send their kids to private schools, where public school students are supported by taxes spread out over all residents of the school district. In fact, parents who wish to send their kids to private schools must pay the private school’s tuition in addition to paying taxes to support the public schools since they do not get any refund of their school taxes if their kids attend private schools. Shouldn’t all parents have a right to send their kids to the school that is best for them, not just the rich?
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Liberals are claiming that the Supreme Court has violated the separation of church and State by ruling that Maine can provide services that do not include religious instruction (meals, transportation, etc.) to religious schools. It is not supporting religion since the services do not include religious teaching. In addition, since the parents are paying public school taxes and the services are provided by the school district to non-religious schools, to deny religious schools the funds, is discriminating against religious schools because of their religious base. In addition, since the schools are in areas not served by public schools, no public schools will be hurt by it and the children would be denied access to schooling if the religious schools were not able to serve them.
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A great deal of the control of the schools lies with the school boards. Many school boards are intimidated by threats of loss of federal funds to
accept federal guidelines. Funding is very important to them. Without funding, they can't run the schools so that may have to be the way that voters
make their feelings known. There are two avenues open to voters. The community currently funds the public schools but if parents don't like what
the schools do, they have no alternative unless they can afford to send their kids to private schools or home school them. Many cannot afford it. That
allows the government to control what your kids learn. Voters often don’t pay attention to candidates for the school board because they feel they are
unimportant, but it is very important who voters elect to the school board because of the personnel they hire, the textbooks they purchase, and the
policies they enact. Many conservative parents have tried to convince their school board to back off from liberal policies but have been unsuccessful.
Some have had to resort to forcing a vote to cut off funds to the schools until the school board agrees to cooperate or recall the school board members,
but that is difficult to do. That seems pretty extreme but voters in some school districts have found it necessary because school board members seem
to think they can do what they want and forget who pays the bills. The other alternative is to issue every child a voucher that their parents can take to
the school of their choice. With vouchers, parents could choose the school they feel is best for their kids. There are some who object to a universal
voucher system and I have dealt with the subject extensively in previous posts, yet the voucher system has been very successful wherever it has been
tried.
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Parents are increasingly disturbed by the blatant attempt of school officials to confuse and indoctrinate their children with Gay propaganda. Children as young as Kindergarten are being told that they can change their sex. Children that young don’t realize the difference between a boy thinking he is a girl or a boy actually becoming a girl. Teaching children that your sex may change confuses them and makes them afraid that they might wake up one morning to find they have switched to the opposite sex. Such teaching is reckless and irresponsible, and parents are finally getting fed up with it. One mother became so upset she organized a world-wide sex-ed sit out where parents pulled their kids out of school for a day to warn administrators that if they didn’t change, the parents would pull their kids out permanently. Of course you didn’t hear about that in the liberal media. The time is fast approaching when parents who want well adjusted kids are going to have to pull their kids out of the public schools if the schools don’t change their ways. Ohio is considering a law similar to the Florida law that bans teaching sex related curriculum to grades K through 3 when kids are most impressionable and do not understand what they are being taught. Voters should flood their legislatures with calls, E-mails, and letters to support such legislation.
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An increasing number of men are entering women’s sports, claiming to be women, and shutting out biological women because they are stronger and faster. Coaches are afraid to complain because they could lose their jobs. Parents are becoming increasingly upset going to meets and watching aspiring women athletes get forced out of competition by men claiming to be transgender women. Schools are pressured by the government that threatens to cut off their funding, athletic associations that threaten to bar them from competition, and Gay rights organizations that threaten to sue them. It is time to put pressure on schools to counter it. While a lot of funding comes from the government, schools are also dependent on local levies. If voters refuse to renew levies or in extreme cases are forced to rescend levies, schools will have to give in. Parents can also boycott meets. Schools can’t stage athletic events if the stands are empty because they depend on the revenue to support their athletic programs. Schools can refuse to compete in athletic associations that allow transgenders or compete with schools that allow transgenders to play. They can get with other schools that don’t allow transgenders to stage their own competitions. It will be difficult at first with only a couple schools, but it will get easier as more schools take a stand.